Delphi Basics : End command

DelphiBasics

End
Keyword

Keyword that terminates statement blocks

keyword End(asm ... end;
begin ... end;
case ... end;
library ... end;
package ... end;
program ... end;
try ... end;
type ... end;
unit ... end. // Note terminating dot

Description

The End keyword is fundamental to Delphi - it terminates statement blocks.

The most common is :

Begin
??... statements ...
End;

Related commands

Begin		Keyword that starts a statement block
Case		A mechanism for acting upon different values of an Ordinal
Program		Defines the start of an application
Try		Starts code that has error trapping
Type		Defines a new category of variable or process
Unit		Defines the start of a unit file - a Delphi module

Download this web site as a Windows program.

Example code : Some examples of the end clause

var
  i : Integer;

begin
  i := 2;

  case i of
    0 : Showmessage('i = 0');
    1 : Showmessage('i = 1');
    2 : Showmessage('i = 2');
  End;
End;

Show full unit code

i = 2